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The DAFI program caters for refugees throughout the country especially those from South Sudan, Sudan, Kenya, Congo among others. [ 3 ] Widle Trust International has been UNHCR's implementing partner for the DAFI (Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative) scholarship programme, supported by the German Government since 2005.
The UNHCR's Mid-Year Trends report of June 2015 (based on information for mid-2015 or latest available information up to that date) reported an "unprecedented" 57,959,702 individuals falling under its mandate (for reference, on 1 January 2007, 21,018,589 people – or less than half of the number in 2015 – fell under the mandate of the UNHCR).
Newcomer education is a need with international implications. The Refugee Convention of the UNHCR in 1951 listed public education as one of the fundamental rights of refugees, stating that “elementary education satisfies an urgent need [and] schools are the most rapid and effective instrument of assimilation.”
The Migration and Refugee Assistance Act was passed by the 87th United States Congress in 1962 and signed into law President John F. Kennedy to deal with unexpected and urgent needs of refugees, displaced persons, conflict victims, and other persons at risk around the globe.
The United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) is an association of federal agencies and nonprofit organizations which work hand-in-hand to identify and admit qualified refugees for resettlement into the United States. [1]
The award was established by UNHCR the organizations first High Commissioner, Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart 1954 as a tribute to Fridtjof Nansen. [2] Fridtjof Nansen was a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, explorer, and League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [ 3 ] and the award was established in honour of his work to support refugees. [ 4 ]
UNHCR's office in Cairo has a past of using a very limited interpretation of the refugee definition outlined in the 1951 Refugee Convention. Although most of the Sudanese in Egypt fled due to war and violence, many had rejected refugee status because they were unable to prove a "well-founded fear of persecution". [ 12 ]
ICARA 2 or ICARA II: The Second International Conference on Assistance to Refugees in Africa was held at Geneva in July 1984.. This was an attempt that was jointly organized by UNHCR and UNDP, and had as its principal theme "Time for Solutions."